Ipod (iTouch) Resources in Education

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Language Arts

• Poetry in the ipod, taking it into garage band and adding sounds to the student poetry
• Weekly Review- Use an iPod plus microphone to record their learning. Practice reading, writing, and spelling skills during the week while recording their learning on the organizer. Practice reading fluently when recording.
• The goal of this lesson is to develop stronger reading fluency and comprehension, and increase language acquisition skills: Use an iPod and a voice recorder, students record themselves reading stories. The content is then cleaned up using GarageBand and redistributed to the students who use it to sound out words, hear how language is used fluidly, and gain a better understanding of the story.
• Apps for dictionaries and thesaurus

Foreign language and ELL

• Students use an iPod and a voice recorder to create recordings of their report in both English and their native language, such as Spanish. The audio files are added to the presentations.
• iPod is a convenient, easy-to-use tool for helping emergent readers and ELL/ESL students learn and practice letter sounds.
• Translation dictionaries Apps (Ultralingua)

Science

• Test Tube TV is a creative, high tech way that students can make a record of classroom science experiments. Instead of (or in addition to) recording data on a lab worksheet, students use digital photography and audio recording to make an enhanced podcast that tells about the experiment and what they learned.
• Using audio, images, and an iPod, students create a series of guided tours through a museum, creating a virtual museum for others to access.
• With the iPod, educators have a science instruction tool that offers portable professional development for teachers “just in time,” as well as a way to extend classroom resources. Some of the ways science educators have used iPod include: Bring science experts and other resources into science teachers’ and students’ pockets, provide the power to play back significant scientific events and instruction, share data and data analysis anywhere and at any time, give every student virtual access to pristine research facilities and state-of-the-art science demonstrations and simulations, facilitate supplemental instruction through multiple languages, extend the everyday classroom lab experience beyond the classroom walls and promote science equity by giving this access to every student.
• ChemTouch (.99) just one of several periodic table Apps. Pack your tool bag with at least one! The easy to use interface visualizes mass, density, boiling point, melting point, radius and electronegativity. Each element is linked to the wikipedia article.
• Google Maps Basics for Teachers (and Google Earth)

Music

• Explored the iPod's educational potential for music students. Using an interactive self-quizzing game developed by the authors that capitalizes on the iPod’s innovative interface, it was found that the iPod can help students to make the critical connection between what they hear in an audio example and concepts that they have learned in class.
• Children need to learn number facts. Many students learn these faster when they can use mnemonics, rhymes, and songs. Students love to create their own memory rhymes and songs, which allows them to personalize math facts. The portability of the iPod can help with developing these math skills by allowing students to listen repetitively to the math facts inside or outside of the classroom.
• Students "map" the beat and notes by swaying and following the pattern of March of the Elephants using the classroom Listening Lounge iPods. Once they are done and the self assessment is completed, the student may choose from variety of songs on a grade-specific playlist.

Math

• Children need to learn number facts. Many students learn these faster when they can use mnemonics, rhymes, and songs. Students love to create their own memory rhymes and songs, which allows them to personalize math facts. The portability of the iPod can help with developing these math skills by allowing students to listen repetitively to the math facts inside or outside of the classroom.
• iMeasure (.99) and Caliper (.99) turns the iPod touch into a ruler or an easy to use measure that can be calibrated for the edge of the Touch. Shake TapeMeasure (free) and it switches from inches to centimeters
• Graphical calculator for th iPod Apps (grafly)
• Grapher with touch capabilities and formula editor Apps (TouchPilot)
• Visually calculate triangle and circle angles, side lengths, areas and more Apps ( Visual Trigonometry Calculator)

Social Studies

• History interview- After a discussion on what it means to be an American, students use an iPod and a voice recorder to interview a family member. They then combine the interview with old photos of that relative in iMovie, and create a short video history about that person. The final movies are presented to the class.
• Radio programs- Writing and recording an original radio play allows students to demonstrate an understanding of a historical event and the genre of the radio play. The iPod is an effective tool for this process because it is portable and stores huge amounts of data. Digitally recorded plays can be rebroadcast to individuals or groups using the iPod.
• With financial literacy listed an important 21st century skills kids must learn about, capturing and applying student curiosity about the stock market can be a great way for teachers to introduce many important economic concepts in the classroom. One way to tap into this learning concept can be done using the Stocks application on the iPod touch. Using that application and device, a teacher turn a simple task like tracking stocks into important and valuable learning experience about finances
• Google Maps Basics for Teachers (and Google Earth)
• As an iPod touch equipped teacher, you can use the basic Google Maps application to perform all sorts of simple geographic activities right from the palm of your hand. Many of these tasks can make getting around a little easier on the go without needing or having access to the full web-based version of Google Maps.
• Get access to detailed information on countries around the world Apps (World Wiki)

Physical Education/Health

• When Nike and Apple joined together to create the Nike+ for the iPod nano, it changed the way health and physical education teachers use technology. PE teachers no longer have to use a stop watch, clipboard, and pencil. Instead teachers can now have students use their iPod to track their distance and speed. With the release of the iPod Touch (2nd Generation), the Nike+ software is now built in to the iPod. With the new Nike+ software, students can track calories burned using cardio machines (ellipticals, stair machines, and treadmills). After students are done exercising they can then sync their iPod with their mac. iTunes will then send their workout information to the Nike+ website. Students can track their progress over time, set goals, and compete with their classmates.

All

• Creating podcasts- students and teachers create and share their own podcasts and vodcasts
• Discovery Education videos in ipod for student use as review and for those who who are absent
• Audio questions for tests- the teacher can allow students to hear the questions on a test for those that have difficulty reading
• Audio and video stories
• Digital portfolios
• Audio speeches- I have a dream speak, etc..
• Student-created flashcard sets for use with iPods and iPod Touches
• Use an iPod and a voice recorder to provide experiment instructions to small groups of students.
• iPod recorders for interviews, etc…
• Turn an educational trip into a memorable multimedia project with ease using a camera, an iPod and a Belkin TuneTalk voice recorder.
• Use an iPod with a voice recorder to record a student telling a story, describing a picture, sharing about a favorite toy from home, or talking about anything that will have the student leading the conversation. Next, the recording is imported into iTunes to save in the student's audio playlist. Now the teacher can use an iPod or iTunes to easily move to any point in the sample for ease of use in transcribing and reviewing the student speech sample.
• Create and uses quizzes to show how students can review curriculum facts with iQuiz.
• Turn a PowerPoint presentation into a movie and download the movie to an iPod.
• Use "SpokenText" to convert text into an audio file. Download the audio file onto an iPod.
• Flashcards for iTouch
• Explore Audio Tools to Improve Learning
• iTunes- App Store- lots of free applications for the itouch
• You Tube Videos available on the itouch
• Itune University- more than 100,000 lectures, presentations, videos, readings, and podcasts from all over the world. It’s the easiest way to put information into the hands of students. Students go to iTunes — which they do all the time anyway — select iTunes U, find the courses and podcasts they want, and download them to their Mac computers or PCs. Then they can sync to an iPod or iPhone and take the content with them. Students can watch Picasso at work in his studio, tour archaeological sites, or study the sound of heart murmurs. You can even assign audio and video content from museums, universities, cultural institutions, and public television stations that post to iTunes U.
• Apps for dictionaries and thesaurus
• Apps for New Articles (Reuters)
• Mogopop-  iPod authoring tool that leverages the Notes facility on an iPod. The Web 2.0 application creates a downloadable installer for you to get the material you have created onto an iPod.
• Audio books (Storynory, )
• Slidehow production